Re: DQ = Tony Isaacs

The site where I'm using your writings is a spinoff of Trudeau's naturalcures.com, which he no longer owns, the guy that does his nfomercials started a MLM that is under the umbrella of ITV, they run naturalcures.com and the community site now.  There are very few there that have more self-education than I have, which is s a d !!!  A few chiro/ND types have been around but not giving much in the way of help ... those that do help are far and few between. ... I guess this is the reason that I chose 3 of my buddies from here to use your writings hoping that folks will seek more nfo!  If you haven't looked yet, your company there is Dr Sutter and MH.

I read the sites on the goji.  Mendell is a vitamin genius, but his goji site reads like HYPE and I don't do hype.  I opted for Genesis Todays juices and find them easily in my healthfood stores.  My sick liver screamed bloody murder on the occassions when I forgot to take it.  I've been on 1 oz a day, 6 days a week for over a year now.  It's still a yummy feeling everytime I drink it, so I'll continue.

I don't say "hey, I had liver cancer" but 6 members of my mama's family had it and died from it.  I definitely had the same symptoms that they started with.  I've been considering the orleander!

I'm a herb girl, that's my "naturalistic" approach.  I doubt I'd ever take the silver, to my way of thinking, it's a heavy metal, something I'm trying to rid my body of.  Do I think silver works?  Probably so!  ... but then and again, so do antibiotics, I ain't taking those either.

I'm experiencing a very strange thing in my body and I've about decided it has to do with milk thistle.  Sudden drastic weight gain is a sign that something ain't right inside??  I started taking milk thistle and within weeks, eating the same diet that I'd been on for over 18 months, I gained 26 pounds?????  My feet looked like ballons ... my kidneys felt like ballons???  Hoping it was some sort of healing crisis, I tried desperately to keep taking it.  I gave it up.  With suggestions from MH, I "had my feet back" weekend before last.  I'd rested my herbs last week.  Saturday night, when I began my supplements again, my feet calves and lover thighs swole again, worse than before.  When I got up this morning, my upper eye lids were even swolen.

I passed kidney stones after stopping the milk thistle ... painlessly, which I credit cayenne pepper with.  I thought perhaps the milk thistle might be encouraging kidney health and getting rid of old stones that were deeply embedded.  After the swelling of the last 2 days, I doubt that is it.

Got any ideas on the milk thistle/swelling delimma?